Rescued Baby Bat 'Twins' Thriving With Australian Carer

A pair of baby bat “twins” were rescued shortly after their birth on the steps of a swimming pool in Queensland, Australia.

This footage was posted online by Queensland-based Denise Wade, who has been caring for injured baby bats for more than a decade.

The flying foxes, named Triffid and Kraken, were rescued a month prior from the steps of a swimming pool when their mother died after having “just managed to give birth to [the] pair,” according to Wade.

In her description for the video, Wade said that Triffid was “very small for his age, but his appetite more than makes up for his tiny stature,” while Kraken was “growing nicely and doing everything he should be doing at this stage.”

Attending to various injured bats at her home in Rochedale South, Wade regularly shares updates on the animals to her Batzilla the Bat YouTube and Facebook pages. Credit: Batzilla the Bat via Storyful

Video transcript

DENISE WADE: I thought you might enjoy an update on our flying fox twins. So this is Triffid. This is Kraken. And as you can see, there's quite a size difference between them. And it's becoming more and more apparent the older they get. They were rescued by Richard one afternoon. They were found on some swimming pool steps.

And poor mom had passed away. But she must have just managed to give birth to this pair. They still had their umbilical cords and their placentas attached. They've done extremely well in care. I am a little bit worried about Triffid, simply because he's so tiny. He's the size of a one-week-old. But Kraken is relatively small still, but he's still half decent size for his age.

There's nothing we can do. We can't make them grow. It's probably the legendary second twin that we see. Sometimes we get these much smaller slow growing babies. And I've always wondered if they were second twin, had dropped off because they weren't strong enough to hang on to mom.

But look, they're good feeders. They're happy little boys. As you can see, they're lovely and inquisitive. I'm not sure they know they're brothers, although they do share a humidicrib. But I don't see any unusual bond between them, do we? Who is that over there? Anyway, we'll see how they go. I think Triffids is going to be a very small statured boy. And little Kraken, we don't know, do we, Kraken? What do you think?

So there we go, my first twins in nearly 17 years. I've heard of them. But I've never had them in care before. They're doing really well, I'm happy to report, and looking for the next feed. Don't you steal his dummy. Yes, definitely looking for the next feed of the day. Better go and get that organized, haven't we? You're going to have a yawn. All right, we'll go and get them fed.